“Vernon Lee—the pen name of the English writer Violet Paget—was a travel writer, novelist, musician, and critic with a strong interest in aesthetics. One of the first to bring the concept of Einfühlung, or empathy, into English criticism, she was also an outspoken follower of Walter Pater’s aestheticism. “An engaged feminist, she always dressed à la garçonne,” someone has written, amazingly, on Wikipedia.

Lee’s work is included in any collection of Victorian ghost stories. Her work is haunting in the true sense and not merely because it deals so frequently with possession. Her stories are graceful, engaging, surprisingly strange. There are often lesbian subtexts; the supernatural was a vehicle for a writer like Lee to indirectly explore such themes.”

“Limbo”, by Sadie Stein, The Paris Review, 25 nov. 2014.

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“Dear old Miss Paget, ‘Vernon Lee’, was brought here by Miss Price. Over 70, but with still a male stride and a downright manner, one more of the last remaining promontories of the ‘nineties to come here. I showed her the rock garden and said, ‘Don’t you think that’s a good design?’ — ‘I don’t like rock gardens, so I don’t mind how they are designed’.”

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geoffroysophie posted: “Dear Vernon Lee readers, cher-e-s lecteurs-lectrices, This week, two more Vernon Lee references found around the world, thanks to our kind readers. 1. Who said that Vernon Lee had no readers across the Atlantic? Please enjoy Sadie Stein’s article in The”